Back in the early 80’s I worked for J G Osborne in Rotherham. Ronnie Osborne owned it then and at the time his younger brother Pete was an owner driver with a very nice F12. As with all the family I got on really well with him and we were good mates. By the time Ronnie called it a day Pete had 5 wagons and some good contracts. He was doing well for himself and offered me a job. It went down hill from there and didn’t work out so I left and haven’t spoken to him since. Shame really because we had some right laughs.
…and yes I do mean THAT Pete Osborne ( Innovate, Green group etc)
Anyone else mixed friendship and work only for it to go boobies up?
Saying that I went to work for Pete’s nephew and was there for 3 years. Great lad. I only left to get a job at Tesco Donny otherwise I’d still be with him
Carlos Fandango:
Anyone else mixed friendship and work only for it to go boobies up?
I went into partnership with a friend 4 years ago, and despite it working fine for the first 3 years, it all started to fall apart a year ago, when work went quieter. He didn’t see why he shouldn’t continue to draw money from the business as and when he felt like it, often using our trade accounts for personal expenditure on his house. I left at the end of October, with an agreement that he would buy out my share. I’m still waiting…
I worked with my mate when I was 18 and we had a great time, but that was a time where it was a low paid warehouse job and at 18 we had no responsibilities so was just a big laugh. We were still grafters and had the most lazy bone idle manager that was just a disgrace, I didn’t agree with it but my mate used to wipe the cheese off his knob around his cup when making the coffee’s
I’m not sure I would go into business with a friend now though, a lot of stress and pressure could ruin it.
Just after BRS went ■■■■, in about 1993-94, I gota job with a guy who would come in and do electrical faults on BRS work. He seemed like a great fella, that was until you actually worked for him.
He turned out to be a right little hitler, think i lasted about 3 months before we had a big blow out and i moved on. Him and his boy seemed to be into clocking cars for “customers” He wanted me to learn how to clock cars to, yeah rrright mister, ■■■■ off!!
Carlos Fandango:
Back in the early 80’s I worked for J G Osborne in Rotherham. Ronnie Osborne owned it then and at the time his younger brother Pete was an owner driver with a very nice F12. As with all the family I got on really well with him and we were good mates. By the time Ronnie called it a day Pete had 5 wagons and some good contracts. He was doing well for himself and offered me a job. It went down hill from there and didn’t work out so I left and haven’t spoken to him since. Shame really because we had some right laughs.
…and yes I do mean THAT Pete Osborne ( Innovate, Green group etc)
Anyone else mixed friendship and work only for it to go boobies up?
Gembo:
Just after BRS went ■■■■, in about 1993-94, I gota job with a guy who would come in and do electrical faults on BRS work. He seemed like a great fella, that was until you actually worked for him.
He turned out to be a right little hitler, think i lasted about 3 months before we had a big blow out and i moved on. Him and his boy seemed to be into clocking cars for “customers” He wanted me to learn how to clock cars to, yeah rrright mister, [zb] off!!
I remember “clocking” a twelve month old Ford Zodiac in 1963. It had done 34,000, and the boss wanted it back to 14,000.
When I got the clock apart, someone had written “Oh no! Not again!” on the back!
On the OP, no, you cannot work for friends. You will lose both the job and the friend. I’ve tried it twice.
. Its ok I guess…
I personally didn’t agree with it but I didn’t disagree enough to stop him